Derek Winnert

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You Only Live Twice **** (1967, Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 1025

Director Lewis Gilbert’s spectacular 1967 spy adventure You Only Live Twice is the fifth Bond movie. It boasts the astounding Japanese volcano that opens up to reveal an underground space station and has 007 Sean […]

Mar, 31

47 Ronin *** (2013, Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki) – Movie Review

Keanu Reeves stars as the noble mixed-race ronin Kai, who along with the Japanese hero Oishi, gathers together a band of samurai to avenge the death and dishonour of their master at the hands of a ruthless […]

Jan, 02

Godzilla [Gojira] *** (1954, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Haruo Nakajima) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 4

‘Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!’ The 1954 Japanese Godzilla movie Gojira has legendary cult status and it’s a classic horror film. It was then Japan’s most expensive movie but, with its very elementary special effects, […]

Nov, 18

The Last Samurai **** (2003, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 379

With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]

Nov, 09

Kill Bill: Vol 1 **** (2003, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 364

In 2003, Quentin Tarantino returned for his fourth film – or at least half of it, as it’s been chopped in two, with part two eventually released eight months later. Uma Thurman, Marsellus’s sexy, drug-addled wife […]

Nov, 04

The Wolverine *** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto) – Movie Review

Where have all the mutants gone? Well, I don’t really know, but The Wolverine has gone to modern-day Japan, summoned by an old acquaintance we see him meeting years ago in the film’s prologue. There […]

Jul, 18

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